Friday, December 22, 2017

News reports have indicated that Marty Golden's "My Life in the Bike Lane" auto-biographical adventure might have an official-looking component --- at least, that's what they say Mayor de Blasio is saying

In any case, it looks like State Senator Marty G and his band of merry supporters, staffers and camp followers are all having something less than a perfect Christmas in this year of 2017 --- with a promise that all of it will be carrying-over into the New Year of 2018..... After all, didn't the Mayor say, "... I will certainly get back to you on that...."

The
Daily News is reporting that "... City
Hall is investigating after after a cyclist said state Sen. Marty Golden used a
parking placard to impersonate a cop.... 'I have to look into
that,' [Mayor] de Blasio said when asked whether [the City of New
York] might revoke Golden’s [special] parking privileges. 'I know that when the
issue came up, folks in my administration who work on those issues were following
up. But I don’t know what’s been learned, so I will certainly get back to you
on that' [the Mayor said]...." (See "City Hall
looking into cop-impersonating state Sen. Marty Golden" by Jillian
Jorgensen, 12/21/17, Daily News/ Politics [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/city-hall-cop-impersonating-state-sen-marty-golden-article-1.3714734]).

DeBlasio and Marty have a good working relationship. Barkan and Gounardes are being played. Neither of them has a chance against Marty—and they’re the perfect suckers to consummate a deal Marty and the Democrats made a long time ago to run a strong opponent against him. Barkan will go out there to to talks about raise $10,000 and get slaughtered. Gounardes will go out there raise a lot more money obsess over LGBTQ issues and still get slaughtered. There could be a video of Marty and his driver beating the bicyclist with a bat it won’t change anything because of the weak opposition.

Cats lost by 12 percentage points citywide and only by a hundred votes in Brooklyn and beat Lhota on Golden’s home turf making a fool out of him and his crew. After Lhota got crushed in the general, Golden had to go begging to repair the relationship with Cats.

Golden did repair the relationship with Cats and that's exactly why Cats speaks with Marty and Ghorra regularly and will support the Senator..cats gives lip service to Eaton...Eaton will have no choice to sit on the sidelines on the 2018 state Senate race unless he wants to support marty

Cats has no relationship at all with Golden or Ghorra. If you believe that they have a relationship why isnt Ghorra or Golden at any of Cats events, dinners, etc. Look at Cats FB posts...they are nowhere to be found ever. I know for a fact that Cats still harbors anger towards Golden and Kassar for the Lhota race and Cats has a very long memory.

DID JQ, GOLDEN'S PR GUY, OR KASSAR, HIS BOSS OF BOSSES, HAVE A HAND IN THIS ???

GOLDEN GOT >>> SHOT AT MORE << DURING HIS CBS TV INTERVIEW ABOUT THE "BIKERAGE" INCIDENT THAN HE DID ANY SUPPOSED "FIRING BACK"

NEWS FLASH: MARTY GOLDEN IS FAR FROM GLIB --- MOST OF THE TIME HE SUFFERS FROM VERBAL DIARRHEA

In my opinion, Marty Golden got by far the worst of it from the opening and closing remarks from a 2 CBS News, New York anchorwoman; and then during a Tony Aiello report, all of which was broadcast over a week ago (See "Marty Golden Fires Back After Being Accused Of Impersonating Police Officer" [by Tony Aiello], 12/15/17, CBS2 New York [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/12/15/marty-golden-speaks-out/]).

Rather than glibly deflecting Tony Aiello's questions, obviously somebody in the Golden brain trust had advised our local State Senator to engage the reporter. The result was a torturous audio-video record of verbal diarrhea from the great communicator of Bay Ridge.

Golden started by trying to be dismissive of the whole bicycle lane thing, but then veered off and accused the cyclist of causing the whole thing. Golden, himself, described it as "road rage" by the cyclist, who pursued our NYSSMG for thirty (30) blocks as Golden and his driver "... tried to get away from him...."

Sadly for Marty, there was much more than that. For example, for some reason, Golden decided to defend himself when there was a mention of "new interest" in a backstory concerning his killing of the old lady many years ago with his SUV, a case that according to CBS, was settled by Golden's insurance company. Marty tried to excuse this vehicular homicide by saying the victim, an elderly woman, walked into the side of his "car" as he proceeded through a changed light. Also for some reason, he felt compelled to add that the woman had a stomach cancer, and that condition additionally contributed to her death. [It was previously mentioned on this blog that $750,000 was paid-out to settle this claim against Golden].

If all that was true, then I have some very simple follow-up questions for my state senator:

First, if, as NYSSMG claims, it was the bike-rider who had the road rage percolating; WHY DOES MARTY GOLDEN THINK THAT THE CYCLIST WAS SO ENRAGED ?????

Second, if the accident involving the old lady with cancer resulted only from her "walking" into the side of NYSSMG's SUV, why did she spend the rest of her life in the hospital being treated for her injuries from the accident, and why did an insurance company pay so much [$750,000] to settle the claim ?????

What does Bob’s result have to do with the fact that whatever campaign Kassar touches turns to garbage? While Kassar hangs out at the Manor promising part time jobs to bottom feeders, Craig is hanging out at 21 with CEOS.

Marty's handling of Bike-Gate was a crash course in "How Not to Engage with the Press" Let us remind readers that none other than our very own John "Bumbles" Quaglione is Marty's PRESS SECRETARY and chief media war room strategist. Bang up job, boys!

Even Golden’s office understood they needed to hire well connected pros with media contacts to quiet this down. Marty’s not going to stake his political future on advice from John taken directly from Jerry.

December 23, 2017 at 10:34 AM is correct.......... it was quickly decided Quaglione could not handle this crisis (he was Marty's press secretary only for 19 years) and Kassar made the executive decision to outsource the media response to Hank "Take The Money And Run" Sheinkof

I will ask the question again since nobody here seems to have the answer: if Hank Sheinkopf is handling Marty's news media then what the heck is Quaglione's role in the office besides fetching Marty's lunch ?!??!!

THE NUMERICAL AND PERCENTILE REPRESENTATIONS EXPRESSED IN THE ABOVE-CITED COMMENTS, AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS LIKE THEM, ARE NOT ONLY INACCURATE AND FANCIFUL MATHEMATICAL PROJECTIONS, THEY ARE VIRTUALLY GIBBERISH AS ANY TYPE OF DEMONSTRATIVE OR REPRESENTATIVE REALITY OF ANY KIND --- HOWEVER, REPEATING THE SAME FORMULAIC PROPOSITION, FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY: "1%"; WHICH APPARENTLY THEN IS COUNTERED BY A PATTERN OF REPETITIOUS, ROUTINE AND FORMULAIC REJOINDERS, TAKEN SERIATIM, DOES GIVE THE APPEARANCE OF AN EMERGING INFINITELY REGRESSIVE FRACTAL --- AND EVERYBODY KNOWS HOW DANGEROUS THAT CAN/ MIGHT BE

FOR THE SAKE OF EXISTENCE AS WE KNOW IT, THESE NUMERANTIC CHAINS MUST BE BROKEN >>> ASAP

We readily can deal with "snarky" comment makers, BUT HAVING TO DEAL WITH ACTUAL "SNARKS" --- ESPECIALLY THE UNIVERSALLY FEARED "BOOJUMS" --- is another matter entirely.

The Brooklyn Conservatives are done. Clorinda and Jerry had their parties on the same night. Clorinda who isn’t even that involved anymore had over a hundred people at her event while Jerry could barely get ten people at his event. About three or four people from the BOE who owe their jobs to him and a few people from Staten Island. The jig is up.

Yup I seen Marty's Secretary on line at T.J. Maxx this morning picking up some last minute gifts for his boss. Later he'll go to Marty's house to cook and clean. The hard work is never done for Marty's Secretary. God Bless Him.

IN SPITE OF THE FEW COMMENTERS, WHOSE SNARKY STUFF I DELETED ABOVE, I DO HOPE THAT MANY OF THE REST OF YOU DID SOME FUN AND FRIENDLY THINGS FOR CHRISTMAS ?????

Because of threats from various "Ghost(s) of Christmas Past," I have been spirited-off to a secret out-of-town location, where there is a beautiful winter wonderland look to everything --- and every house looks like its's decorated for a Currier and Ives print.

Gail, are you going to do the right thing and stand up for Richard Luthmann or NOT? Your one word post, "Luthmann" is not a very strong piece of journalism, even if you did get over a hundred people to make comments to it.

Luthmann, a former Reform Party activist, is being railroaded by the FEDS only to benefit the McMahons, who are worse than the MacBeths when it comes to grievous treachery.

At least let YOUR HANDFUL OF LOYAL READERS know what the New York Times has reported about this case. I know that your friend, ykw, has given you a lot more detailed information than that about the tell-all case Luthmann brought on behalf of Mike Pulizotto against people like Judge Judy McMahon, Staten Island DA Mike McMahon and THE MAN with a million stories to tell about the courts in Staten Island and around the State of New York, Denis Quirk

Anyone who was foolish enough to align with Luthmann will now have to pay the price. The case against him is very strong and anyone active in SI circles knew that this guy at the very least had felonious tendencies way before any indictments came out.

LET'S SAY THAT I AGREE WITH >>> ALL <<< OF THE COMMENT MAKERS ABOVE, BECAUSE THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH IN EACH OF THE COMMENTS BY THE ANONYMOUS COMMENTERS CITED IN MY "TO" SUBHEADING --- IT'S ALSO A LOT EASIER THAT WAY, TALKING ABOUT WHAT I AGREE WITH AND NOT ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT I DON'T

The Federal Indictment of Richard Luthmann really does look bad. And to paraphrase "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 3:57 PM": "Anyone who [is] foolish enough to align with Luthmann will [ ] have to pay the price. The case against [Luthmann looks] very strong and anyone active in SI circles knew that this [Luthmann] at the very least had felonious tendencies way before any indictments came out...."

Nonetheless, something about all of this stuff stinks to high heaven --- and that's the truth.

I'm not close to this case, and I haven't been fully briefed by any of my BSIs about it; but I do know that a prosecutor (in this case many state and federal prosecutors) has gone after a political activist with whom that prosecutor had lots of issues. First, the prosecutor tried using a "Special Prosecutor"; when there was a tough motion made by Luthmann concerning the "Special Prosecutor", then with the addition of some magical testimony of several bad actors, who had messes of their own to work-out, the case went over to the "Feds" and Luthmann was then arrested by them for what looks like some really bad things; and the SI prosecutor and everybody on Staten Island, including the SI Advance, said what a wonderful thing that it would be for DA McMahon and his lovely wife Judge Judy if Luthmann were stuck in the slammer for a very long time.

Yeah, this thing stinks to high heaven, alright; and what makes it stink even more is the Dennis Quirk part. You know, he's the same Dennis Quirk, who is asshole-buddies with State Senator Marty Golden.... OH, AND THE SAME DENNIS QUIRK, WHO TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY IN 2013 TO SALVAGE THE SOILED AND TATTERED CAREER OF PROSECUTOR CHARLES HYNES ALONG WITH BROOKLYN'S CONSERVATIVE BOSSES MIKE LONG AND JERRY KASSAR, AND LAWYER ARTIE AIDALA.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT --- I'LL BET YOU THAT PROBABLY THEY >>> ALL <<< ARE CONNECTED TO THIS CASE IN SOME WAY, AS WELL

Everybody is missing one of the real sleazes in this story, John P. Connors, the hooked-up Staten Island attorney, who's got at least a little bit of a conflict of interest going on here from the look of things. On the sleaze spectrum, though, John-John Connors is at the choirboy end, Judy and Mike McMahon are in the middle, and Dennis Quirk, well sleazy doesn't even begin to tell his story.

It sure be plain as the zit on the tip of your nose that everybody ready to testify against Ruthmann for These alleged crimes of his are low lifes that prosecutors have squeezed for their bad testimony as part of plea offers.

To 7:22. The point is the patronage that KCCP can dole out is almost non existent compared to what it used to be. So that means that capable people no longer go to them for favors, they can’t even get any filing jobs at the DA Office anymore. People who can get stuff done no longer go to the Conservatives for favors. They got exposed in the Quaglione race when Kassar and Long put their full muscle behind Liam and he got crushed. It’s true they took over the Brooklyn GOP but there are no spoils left, so while Craig hangs with influential people who can get people real jobs in the real world Jerry has to feel important by promising part time jobs to people who couldn’t get hired at Walmart.

While people knock Eaton and Capano on this blog, they live their lives in the real world private sectors, working with influential people, have significant roles in politics behind the scenes, while watching the demise of the Brooklyn Conservative Party and the rise of the Brooklyn Reform Party.

Gail, you do know don't you that Luthmann was handed his walking papers by the Reform Party. So you really aren't helping helping your friends, Capano and Sliwa, or Eaton and Catsimatidis even a little bit by attempting to carry Luthmann's water for him. The buzz is that Capano wants you to drop what your trying to do for Luthmann. so why are you pretending that you haven't heard that?

Damn it..every time I count Capano out, he comes back..I just noticed his Facebook timeline..almost 300 sending him birthday messages including Democrats like Joe Bova and Khader El Yateem., conservatives like Fran Vella Marrone..Republicans like Craig Eaton, Steve Saperstein and Joe Kovac, reporter's like Andrea Peyser of the Post and Helen Klein...I guess people still respect Bob despite what Kassar and Q may say..

No pretending at this end. Bob Capano and I don't roll that way, and I haven't heard that he cares what I do vis a vis Richard Luthmann one way or the other.

As for helping anybody with the Luthmann stuff on this site --- I don't believe that I have, one way or the other, I just reported things the way they looked to me and one of my top BSIs who seems very interested in all of it for emotional reasons. I think it might be a hormone imbalance.....

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, WE AT "THE BROOKLYN... FOUNTAINHEAD" THINK THAT 2017 WAS A VERY TOUGH YEAR..... IN ADDITION TO THE VERY SPECIFIC, VERY LOCAL, VERY PERSONAL LOSS SUFFERED BY THOSE OF US IN THESE PARTS, IT DOES SEEM LIKE THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD HAS BEEN RAVAGED IN 2017 AS WELL --- AND NOW "ROSE MARIE" JOINS THE BIG PARADE IN THE YEAR 2017

Rose Marie Mazetta performed in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and even into the 2000s --- yes, that's nine (9) decades..... Some say that she is the last surviving performer who had a charted hit before WW-II.

To show some of the performing heights that she achieved, she toured the country for many years as one of the "4 Girls 4" retro-show with big-band singing stars Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, and Helen O'Connell.....

Al Capone was one of her patrons; as was Bugsy Siegel, who brought her to Las Vegas very early on.

Even if Capano does not win..he will be a hero for getting the 50,000 votes to keep the Reform Party on the ballot throughout NYS for the next 4 years..now imagine if he gets more votes than the conservative candidate for Governor, then the Reform Party is ahead of the conservative party on all ballots across the state..now that would be big

ISN'T ANY TALK ABOUT BOB CAPANO'S RUNNING AS THE REFORM PARTY'S OR ANYBODY ELSE'S CANDIDATE TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR AGAINST DEMOCRAT INCUMBENT ANDREW CUOMO JUST A WASTE OF TIME AND BREATH ?????

Life is too short.....

So, any mention of Capano's possibly running for governor from this point forward will be "deep-sixed" from this blog ASAP >>> unless and until >>> it has been demonstrated to our satisfaction ( me and my closest BSIs ) that a Bob Capano candidacy for Governor of the State of New York in 2018 has any credibility whatsoever.

If Catsimatidis were irrelevant he wouldn't have Ted Ghorra begging his daughter to arrange a meeting. Even Ted realizes his days as Chair are numbered unless he literally lets Jerry run every facet of the Brooklyn GOP.

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